A young French 14 years caught the eye of Google – Le Figaro

VIDEO – Eliott Sarrey created Bot2Karot, a gardener robot that allows its users to grow vegetables from their smartphone. He will participate in September in the final of the Google Science Fair, the scientific contest organized by the computer giant.

Eliott Sarrey 14 years and is, according to Google, is already part of the future of science. Monday, his project Remote gardener robot Bot2Karot, was selected among the 20 projects selected by the US giant to participate next September in the final of the Google Science Fair, the online science competition organized by Google.

The competition, réserevé young people aged 13 to 18, is organized since 2011. Google said it received this year several thousand candidates, retaining only “20 ways to change the world.” Other projects selected this year, an initiative to automate the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, a new way of detecting adulterated products or water saver.

Designed as a game, Bot2Karot allows its users to cultivate a vegetable garden from their smartphone. The gardener robot, a remote controlled tractor, watering can, hoe and transplant the pots which he is responsible. In an interview with France Info, Eliott Sarrey, a native of Lorraine, explains that he got the idea a year ago, seeing people in his entourage who were playing on their smartphones gardeners, never happen in the real world.

In his video presentation, the young man, whose father is an engineer, his invention intended to “always pressed working people” and persons with reduced mobility. By encouraging the production of vegetables for personal consumption, also of Bot2Karot, according Eliott Sarey, an ecological dimension. The robot is still in the prototype stage, and for good reason: the young man has created in three months.

See you on September 21 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, where Eliott Sarey and the other 19 candidates will be meeting a jury of teachers, scientists and professors in business universities to which they will defend their projects. A key, a $ 50,000 prize, which could greatly help the young French to realize his dream of studying in America

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